Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop

$200M ain't no pocket change. One would hope such high-profile failures as this or Avengers would curb execs enthusiasm for live service games, but I'm not holding my breath.

I guess it's nice to have confirmation, but I'm not an ounce surprised that the story of Suicide Squad is "big publisher pushed developer to make live-service trash." I'd be hopeful that the Rocksteady single-player title could come back, but Zaslav has committed to making more live-service flops. Absolutely wild that they couldn't learn their lesson from Hogwarts Legacy, you don't even have to make a single-player openworldathon that good and people will still praise it if you have a popular enough IP.

As with most AAA-games, the people that view entertainment as a mere tool for money extraction got involved.

Support developers that are actually passionate about entertainment. The ghouls that make games as a means of profit seeking (and who exploit the people who are passionate) can wither away.

Holy shit, in a year of bad games, Suicide Squad stands out. Honestly shocked Forspoken or Redfall didn't get top spot.